Ebo Nganagam people (ethnic group)
Ebo Nganagam people is an ethnic group of human beings in Sahar, most of them speak dialects of the Ebo Nganagam language. The Ebo Nganagam people is the largest ethnic group of the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam, they consist of about 77% of the total population of the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam.
The word Ebo Nganagam is an endonym, which means "village people" in the Ebo Nganagam language.
In terms of ABO blood type, it is known that about the blood type of 55-60% Ebo Nganagam people are O, and the blood type of 40-45% Ebo Nganagam people are A, and it seems that virtually no native Ebo Nganagam people has blood type B or AB; In terms of RH blood type, about 35% of Ebo Nganagam people have blood type Rh-.
Ebo Nganagam people don't have surnames, however, village names can sometimes be used as something similar.
Traditionally, Ebo Nganagam people are polygamous, it is not common for richer people or chiefs of tribes to have many wives at the same time. Although polygamy has been banned in the Confederation of Ebo Nganagam, polygamy is still common in many rural areas.
Ebo Nganagam people don't eat meat frequently, meat consumption was even stigmatized by many people of upper classes before the arrival of Hux Kham settlers, even today, fequent meat consumption is still frequently seen as a behavior practiced only by parvenus, non-Ebo Nganagam peoples or foreigners.
Despite having horticulture, and has been contacted with other groups of people, Ebo Nganagam people are not known to domesticate animals before livestocks being introduced to the area, animal farming is still rare among Ebo Nganagam people today; in respect of horticulture, the only crop that is domesticated by the Ebo Nganagam people is the koro grain.
It is thought that Ebo Nganagam people originate from the Kawa mountains, and they only started to spread west after the expansion of the Holy Algadorian Empire. Despite that the Ebo Aga Empire brought a lot of Ebo Nganagam people to the west, the migration of Ebo Nganagam tribes to west had actually started long before the establishment of the Ebo Aga Empire, and Ebo Nganagam had actually become a major ethnic group of most parts of the modern Ebo Nganagam land before the before the establishment of the Ebo Aga Empire.
The Ebo Nganagam people are not closed genetically related to any other human beings in Sahar, they are not genetically closer to the Hyum Nthang people than to any other human groupsin Sahar either, despite the geographic proximity, and according to the some new genetic research, the Hyum Nthang people and the Ebo Nganagam people are the genetically most divergent people among human beings in Sahar.
The Ebo Nganagam people had a long history resisting any attempts to write their languages, their hostile attitude towards writing has only started to change recently.
History
It is thought that Ebo Nganagam people invented horticulture independently, but before 600 AD, they were totally unknown by outsiders. The first record of Ebo Nganagam tribes was made by Gail Ooriam, a Fals explorer and seafarer, in 610 AD, and his experience with the Ebo Nganagam peoples later became the source of the legend of the "Dragon People".
However, Ebo Nganagam people only had more contacts with outsiders only after 700 AD, when the Holy Algadorian Empire started to expand, and this was the first time when the Ebo Nganagam people started to be known by more people, however, through the time of the rule of Holy Algadorian Empire, most Ebo Nganagam were still remained uncontacted.
Before the 19th century, Ebo Nganagam people were divided into "Ripe" people and "Raw" people, the "Ripe" people were those who had significant contacts with other groups of people, and the "Raw" people were those who had little, if any contacts with other groups of people.
All Ebo Nganagam people that had migrated west, and some Ebo Nganagam people that had contacts with the Holy Algadorian Empire, were considered to be "Ripe" people, and those who still lived around the Kawa mountains were considered to be "Raw" people.
Generally, the "Ripe" people were more culturally sophisticated, and the "Raw" people were much less sophisticated. While the "Ripe" people had adapted iron working early on and even formed an empire called the Ebo Aga Empire in the late 15th century; on the other hand, the "Raw" people still lived in stone age as late as the 19th century, and virtually everyone was afraid of the "Raw" people, even the "Ripe" people were afraid of them, claiming that the "Raw" people were cannibals and could kill outsiders by some black sorceries, and there were full of fierce ghosts around the Kawa mountains. Currently, no evidence shows that the "Raw" people were truly cannibals(and all known evidence is against the cannibal rumor), and no one could prove if there's a ghost in the world, however, as most people who entered the Kawa mountain area eventually disappeared or died mystically or got strange diseases and died, people started to spread rumors about the "Raw" people and the Kawa mountains; nevertheless, the "Raw" people and the "Ripe" people had contacts and had trades with each other, and some loanwords also managed to enter the Ebo Nganagam dialects of the "Raw" people, like the numerals 6-10, 100, 1000 and some other words.
As people from other civilizations started to enter the area of Kawa mountains extensively in the 19th century(As said before, legends had it that the Kawa mountains is a horrible mountain range full of cannibals and strange diseases.), and as a result of the massacre of people of the Ebo Lokngak and its allies, the distinction between the "Ripe" people and the "Raw" people started to be blurred in 1840s, and the distinction disappeared completely in 1890s.